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Intelligence Report INTELLIGENCE REPORT EDITOR Mark Potok INTELLIGENCE PROJECT DIRECTOR Heidi Beirich SENIOR WRITER Don Terry ONLINE EDITOR/SENIOR WRITER Ryan Lenz DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH Evelyn Schlatter DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF INVESTIGATIONS Laurie Wood INFORMATION MANAGER Michelle Bramblett INTELLIGENCE ANALYST Anthony Griggs 18 ‘Culture Jamming’ 25 Seeing Red Racist leaders are increasingly sending out disinformation, including fraudulent eyewitness reports and fake news stories, to spread their ideas and memes. Anti-Indian groups have long portrayed themselves as simply seeking equal rights. But now they’re adopting a classic conspiracy theory about secret communists. RESEARCH ANALYST Janet Smith PROGRAM ASSOCIATE Karla Griffin RESEARCHERS Angela Freeman, Karmetriya Jackson DESIGN DIRECTOR 64 Life After Hate Former white supremacists discuss how they took an idea born in Europe and started an ExitUSA program aimed at helping people leave the racist movement. Russell Estes DESIGNERS Shannon Anderson, Valerie Downes, Michelle Leland, Sunny Paulk, Scott Phillips, Kristina Turner PRODUCTION MANAGER Regina Collins SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Alex Amend MEDIA AND GENERAL INQUIRIES Heidi Beirich LAW ENFORCEMENT INQUIRIES Laurie Wood SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS Karla Griffin Southern Poverty Law Center 400 Washington Ave. • Montgomery, AL 36104 (334) 956-8200 • intelligencereport.org PUBLISHED BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S INTELLIGENCE PROJECT d e pa r t m e n t s 3 Intelligence Briefs Candidates’ extremist views are aired; white nationalist leader Willis Carto dies; “flaggers” are charged in racial confrontation; and other glimpses of extremism. 68 For the Record A sampling of hate crimes and hate group activities from the last quarter of 2015 is summarized in state-by-state listings. 69 The Last Word J. Richard Cohen SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER FOUNDERS Morris Dees Joseph J. Levin Jr. Not everyone takes the militiamen who occupied a federal wildlife center in Oregon seriously. A litany of “erotic fan fiction” lampoons the cowboy constitutionalists. SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS Alan B. Howard, Chair Henry Solano, Vice Chair Marsha Levick, Elden Rosenthal, Will Little, James Rucker, Lida Orzeck, Ellen Sudow, Bryan Fair, James McElroy, Bennett Grau, Jocelyn Benson The Intelligence Report is published two times a year by the staff of the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and provided free of charge to law enforcement officials, journalists, scholars and others. The Southern Poverty Law Center is supported entirely by private donations. No government funds are involved. © 2016 Southern Poverty Law Center. All rights reserved. law enforcement inquiries welcomed The Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) welcomes law enforcement inquiries regarding radical right extremists and hate groups. Please direct questions during normal business hours to Laurie Wood via the SPLC’s general number, (334) 956-8200. Printed with inks containing 27.3% renewable resources SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER PRESIDENT